young people really are having a terrible time getting started in careers. you know, college graduates are still working at starbucks and the like, and we have a lot of college graduates who are really graduate students, not learning very much, because they can t find a job. piling up a lot of debt and so forth. so at what point is this assumption that every person needs to go a four-year college and then get a graduate degree going to fold under the weight of the counterevidence maybe it s smarter to join the work force earlier? i think it s starting right now. for example, law schools are reducing sizes of classes and several prominent business schools did not raise enough applications last year to start a first year class. for example, george mason university did not have a first year class here in virginia. and, you know, i know my program, my part-time program, which is our bread and butter, our enrollment is down. you ve got to deliver jobs and value in the end. i don t think
miniv minivan full of children is out of a job this morning. [ screams ] open the door! saying the officer was fired effective 5:00 last night. the driver of the van was stopped for speeding in new mexico then fled twice after arguing with officers. at one point her son attacked one of the officers. she and her 14-year-old son were later arrested. she h the officer has 30 days to appeal the firing. and his wife will need convincing if he s running for president in 2016, rand paul. where s my cell phone. can i call my wife? they tell me there s two votes in my family, and my wife has both of them. they re both no right now. and a white house speech in detroit on friday. paul has made several visits in
force participation. what percentage of american whose can work, who want to work, are working? why isn t that the number the government releases and that we use as our common currency of this conversation? it does release it, right alongside the unemployment numbers but the press is just interested in the unemployment number because it s a sexy number, one we ve used over tile. like the headline number for the cpi or the core number for the cpi and people are aware of it. i i don t think the administration is doing a terribly good job of selling itself. mr. obama wouldn t have a 39% approval rating even with the obama care if he had a good job rating. people are working multiple part time job, can t make ends meet. why we have demonstrations outside mcdonald s. if we had a healthy job market we wouldn t be discussing the minimum wage. the income disparity the
hidden message. it is a democratic message. the message is medicaid, social security, universal health care. they are de facto constitutional rights. when he compares those policies to the constitution and he makes them equivalent, he s saying this is a constitutional right. that s part of the democratic philosophy. brian: he s saying people don t understand it. other people look at it and say it doesn t work. it s impossible to understand. for example, what we talked about yesterday with the individual mandate capping individual contributions now because insurance companies say we can t handle that capping where you want us to cap. it s too low. can t make ends meet. so he decides to raise that cap increasing the burden on the u.s. taxpayer. that was on the website, the labor department website in february. this is so unwieldy. there s so many moving parts. peter: you re right and people haven t looked at that that the out-of-pocket costs are going to increase. gretchen: i think th
stopped looking. that s up in the high teens. 14.5%. it s down from 14.9%. it s trending in the right direction but still terrible. that many people are unemployment or underemployed and can t make ends meet and are looking for more work. that is the real unemployment number. in terms of the demographics of the country, some people make the argument that in the times since the president took office, the numbers shifted, people are getting older, decided they re never going to return to the workforce and we have fewer people, fewer immigrants coming to look for work. so that can contribute to part of it. 14.5% of the people needing work, any work is too high. bret: next up, friday lightning round.